In Other News (May 1)
- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company and the Environmental Defense Fund are entering a partnership in which the advocacy group will help improve the environmental performance of the buyout firm's companies, including areas of greenhouse gas emissions, reports the New York Times.
- A "dramatic backlash" is occurring in Washington against corn-based ethanol, according to an article in the Christian Science Monitor.
- Siberia's Lake Baikal has warmed faster than global air temperatures over the past 60 years, a situation threatening animals unique to the world's largest lake, says a Reuters story found on the Planet Ark web site.
- The Florida Senate has given final approval to a bill that would bring new energy-efficient building codes, renewable fuel standards and other initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases, writes the Miami Herald.
- Climate change could trigger a chain of events that might prompt an increase in HIV rates worldwide, according to an Australian expert cited in a report appearing in the Economic Times.
